 Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy!  The British Essayists - Page 141edited by - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 410 pages
...and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking. Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment in extremes ; So over... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - Great Britain - 1846 - 602 pages
...and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to shew his judgment, in extremes ; So over... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - Gramont, Philibert, comte de, 1621-1707 - 1846 - 572 pages
...Was every thing by starts, and nothing long, But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women,...rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 386 pages
...Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon; Then all for teamen, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong. Was ev'rything by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course se. Ye died in thinking. Blest madman ! who could ev'ry hour employ With something new to wish, or to enjoy.... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long. But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman and buffoon ; Then all for women,...rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Spectator. 14. The way to conquer men is by their passions : Catch but the ruling... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...wrong. Was everything by starts, and nothing long. But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman and buffoon ; Then all for women,...rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Spectator. 14. The way to conquer men is by their passions : Catch but the ruling... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 334 pages
...Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman,...rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman ! who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - Thames River - 1849 - 388 pages
...and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides a thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman ! who could every hour employ, With something new to wish or to enjoy. Railing and praising were his usual thcmct, And both, to show his jndgment in extremes. So over violent,... | |
 | Denys Thompson - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 252 pages
...and buffoon; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Beside ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes; So over violent... | |
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